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So why was “Noah’s Arc” ever cancelled?

At last week’s Hollywood premiere of the feature film “Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom,” creator-director Patrik-Ian Polk alluded to the TV series inexplicably being cancelled after two seasons when he introduced the movie.

He said he could not even pretend to begin to understand network economics but quickly added: “It’s hard to be mad at them when I’m standing here in a movie theater.”

So, a feature film does take the sting away a bit (a lot actually since it is so good) but fans of the show can’t help but think about what was lost – the two years in time where the show ended and the movie begins.

Stars Darryl Stephens and Jensen Atwood, (pictured right with co-star Christian Vincent) said in an interview this week on AfterElton.com, say even they have never had it explained to them why the show was pulled off the air.

Atwood: “I was shocked when we were canceled. I’ve heard a lot of speculation as far as why people think it was canceled. I also think that there is somebody out there that knows what the real answer is – the person who makes those decisions. I would like to have someone sit down whoever that person is and genuinely ask them the reasoning behind it. It just makes no sense not only to me, but to a lot of our fans as well.”

Stephens: “We were given a lot of information, information that was useful in trying to comfort us when we found out that we weren’t going into production on a third season, but nothing that made me understand why one of the network’s biggest shows wasn’t coming back to television. I think that the movie was a great way to end the show and it’s a nice final chapter, but I don’t really get why the show didn’t come back.

I will say that I understand that Logo has a lot of people that they’re trying to appeal to within the LGBTQ community. A show like Noah’s Arc is not the cheapest show to produce. Looking at a show like Shirts & Skins, it’s much more cost-effective for them to do a show like that as opposed to this big narrative with wardrobe budgets and sets and shooting in Vancouver. If they feel like they’re going to make more money on a show that doesn’t cost as much, that’s what the network is going to do. ”

Still seems like a bone-headed decision to me but kudos to Logo for making “Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom” its first feature film release. We will forgive them even more if they fast-track another installment. That seems like it would be a good business decision!